Mary Ellen jumped right in with high energy to do this annual IL favorite! In direct contrast to the previous speaker, Mary Ellen actually likes Twitter and sees searching possibilities. She feels thatTtwitter is just like the web and like blogs – lots of noise, but the 140 characters limit the tweet to only important words. You don’t bloviate on Twitter! She then went on to highlight other search tips : – Wolfram/alpha Search-and-compute engine
Works with factual queries
Indexes “systematic knowledge” data
What is amazing is what it DOES with the data – makes data visible.
Patrons want “added value” – more than just Google.

– Google SquaredWorks for categories of things
Generates table of facts.
You can edit this table.
Visualization is worth 1000 words.
You can export this to an Excel Spreadsheet!!

– Search Cloudlet (Customized google as an add on for Firefox) Tag/site/TLD cloud of results.
You can modify your search quickly.
Works on both Google and on Twitter.http://Getcloudlet.com

– Google News Timeline Skim the news by timeline – just particular days
Hyperlinked version of FastFlip